Waymo has played shy for years about how many EV Jaguar I-Pace there are in its autonomous figure, a figure that covers the vehicles used in the tests and commercial operations of Robotaxi. On Monday, the alphabet company finally tested the commercial side of the fleet.
Waymo said Monday, as part of a larger announcement, which has more than 1,500 commercial robotaxis in operation. And the work is underway to expand it through a multimillion-dollar investment with Magna to build more than 2,000 I-PACE autonomous vehicles in a new factory in Arizona.
Waymo has worked with Magna for years, namelly in an installation now closed in Detroit. The new 239000 square feet factory in the Table Phoenix suburb is strategically located in one of the Waymo Robotaxi markets and near their other areas of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin service.
A Waymo spokesman told TechCrunch that the company looked at other locations, but ultimately chose table for its proximity to other markets and because the constant climate made it ideal for the validation process required the Robotaxis procedure.
Waymo said in a blog post announcing the factory that resorted to Jaguar’s final delivery earlier this year. From here, the Magna and Waymo contract constructor are about to integrate the autonomous driving system into vehicles. Waymo emphasized a new process designed to accelerate the process of use to public validation, noting that avs can be expelled from the facilities and directly to the service.
“In fact, thesis vehicles can pick up their first public passengers less than 30 minutes after leaving the factory,” Waymo said in his blog post. The company said that vehicles for other cities can be deployed in the public service in a matter of hours after being sent to its local deposit.
The table factory is designed to handle other vehicle platforms, in particular to integrate the sixth generation of the Waymo autonomous driving system in the Zeekr RT at the end of this year.
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The plant will introduce an automated assembly line and other efficiencies over time, according to the company, which indicated that the plant will be able to build tens of thousands of totally autonomous Waymo vehicles per year that operate at full capacity.
